Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Those opposite will have to wait to see the budget, but I can tell you that they will see a budget where responsible decisions are being made about programs that are ongoing, where they've been underfunded, where they've been neglected, where they're being used as a way of propping up a budget to pretend that those costs aren't coming. You will see the government working carefully to deal with those. They are a significant pressure on the budget, and they will contribute to significant expenditure in fixing them up.